Example sentences of "he was sit [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 2 | There , you knew you had a night visitor when he was sitting beside you . |
| 3 | He was sitting beside the river watching dead leaves floating downstream when he noticed that one leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly — it was floating upstream . |
| 4 | He was sitting beside me in the jump seat or that generally occupied by a second pilot because in those days there were no flight engineers on twin-engined aircraft . |
| 5 | Sheridan muttered under his breath several times , making the people he was sitting with uncomfortable . |
| 6 | Terry left the group he was sitting with and joined me . |
| 7 | He was sitting with Mick at the top of a hill and he was wishing with a deep desire that he could remain in time , this present time , forever . |
| 8 | On the Wednesday morning of the first week of the schedule he was sitting with the cards spread before him and feeling fairly secure . |
| 9 | When she came back he was sitting with the cat curled up on his knees . |
| 10 | Walking to the far end of the cells passage , he lowered himself to the floor until he was sitting with his back to the wall facing the door with its broken lock hanging askew . |
| 11 | He was sitting with his hands inside his pockets , legs crossed , shoulders hunched , watching closely as if Rogers were trying to trick him . |
| 12 | He was sitting on the side of the bed , his head slightly tilted , his eyes closed . |
| 13 | He was sitting on a sofa outside the lecture-room , smoking a cigarette . |
| 14 | I lifted Harry until he was sitting on the walkway and then , still gripping him tightly , wriggled up beside him so that we were both sitting there with our heads wholly above water , which may not sound a great advance but which was probably the difference between life and death . |
| 15 | He was sitting on the top deck of a London bus when the idea came to him . |
| 16 | He was sitting on a three-legged stool chopping sticks . |
| 17 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 18 | He was sitting on a bench near the top of the hill , overlooking the throw-yourself-off bridge and the deep deep gorge . |
| 19 | He was again conscious of where he was : in the room of his own apartment , on the third floor of a large house , he was sitting on this Sunday afternoon , an ageing man , old not in years , but in their disappointments . |
| 20 | He was sitting on the edge of the sheet now . |
| 21 | There was this veranda on the back of the caravan which Yul Brynner had got from somewhere , and he was sitting on this veranda in his black shirt , black boots and black trousers and smoking a big cigar . |
| 22 | Look Joe — ’ Len leaned towards him from where he was sitting on the side of his bed and , lowering his voice , he said , ‘ I do n't want to probe , and I know I 've said this before , but I … |
| 23 | It was as if the hawk could hear the rabbit running along the tunnels inside the hedge , while he was sitting on a post on top of the hedge . |
| 24 | He was sitting on the couch facing her , his arm stretched out along the back . |
| 25 | At nine o'clock on his second evening at Plumford , he was sitting on the terrace of the Ferry Inn . |
| 26 | After the great bull market , he was sitting on a £13 million paper fortune . |
| 27 | He was sitting on the edge of the big desk when she entered . |
| 28 | He was sitting on the gate ahead of me , writing in a notebook . |
| 29 | He was sitting on the counter in the shop , now , playing with the fiddling and fluting monkeys with his good left hand . |
| 30 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |